Review of Sentence Composing
- Generally, it is a strategy for generating effective sentences for communication. It includes editing and revising existing writing.
- 4 Different types: Sentence Unscrambling, Sentence Imitating, Sentence Combining, Sentence Expanding (Noden is a good example)
- The goal is to expand the student's ability to expand their writing.
Language Activity #1: Writing about a person who is very important to me
Directions: Create sentences after the models from literature examples.
From Literature:
My Sentence:
Then he turned
and stood still,
with the sun at his back,
and studied the water again.
- Gary Paulson Hatchet
Then she cut,
and measured,
with the pattern on the mat,
and created something new carefully.
Pieces of tree,
pieces of metal,
pieces of seat and airplane wing
gleamed in the moonlight
- Caroline B. Cooney, Flight #116 is Down
Buttons of red,
threads of gold,
fabric of calico and gingham cloth
called from the table.
Crossing the lawn that morning,
Douglas Spaulding
broke a spider web with his face
when a single invisible line on the air
touched his brow
and snapped without a sound
- Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
Sewing the pieces together
my mother
created a new dress
with patient and nimble fingers on the machine
working quickly
and moving along the cloth.
Language Activity #2 - Michelle & Mary Weeks
Prose from Cartoon
Directions: Translate a comic strip into narrative form. This lesson gets at the proper usage of quotation marks in writing.
The little girl wandered into the living room. She looked up at her dad who was reading the paper studiously.
"Daddy...do we have any cherry bombs I can use?" She asked directly.
"Uh...no, Danae." he replied apathetically.
"How about some M-80s?" Danae asked hopefully.
"Nope." he sighed.
"Bottle rockets?" She inquired.
"No." he answered, still reading the paper.
She scratched her chin, deep in thought, before she finally exploded. "Well, How am I supposed to liberate barbies from oppression without explosives?!"
Her dad, still glued to his paper, replied knowingly, "Just leave your sister's dolls alone."
Noden's Brush Strokes
Painting is equated to writing. Students tend to do more functional writing, like painting a house/car, rather than creative writing, like painting a portrait.
- Generally, it is a strategy for generating effective sentences for communication. It includes editing and revising existing writing.
- 4 Different types: Sentence Unscrambling, Sentence Imitating, Sentence Combining, Sentence Expanding (Noden is a good example)
- The goal is to expand the student's ability to expand their writing.
Language Activity #1: Writing about a person who is very important to me
Directions: Create sentences after the models from literature examples.
and stood still,
with the sun at his back,
and studied the water again.
- Gary Paulson Hatchet
and measured,
with the pattern on the mat,
and created something new carefully.
pieces of metal,
pieces of seat and airplane wing
gleamed in the moonlight
- Caroline B. Cooney, Flight #116 is Down
threads of gold,
fabric of calico and gingham cloth
called from the table.
Douglas Spaulding
broke a spider web with his face
when a single invisible line on the air
touched his brow
and snapped without a sound
- Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
my mother
created a new dress
with patient and nimble fingers on the machine
working quickly
and moving along the cloth.
Prose from Cartoon
Directions: Translate a comic strip into narrative form. This lesson gets at the proper usage of quotation marks in writing.
The little girl wandered into the living room. She looked up at her dad who was reading the paper studiously.
"Daddy...do we have any cherry bombs I can use?" She asked directly.
"Uh...no, Danae." he replied apathetically.
"How about some M-80s?" Danae asked hopefully.
"Nope." he sighed.
"Bottle rockets?" She inquired.
"No." he answered, still reading the paper.
She scratched her chin, deep in thought, before she finally exploded. "Well, How am I supposed to liberate barbies from oppression without explosives?!"
Her dad, still glued to his paper, replied knowingly, "Just leave your sister's dolls alone."
Noden's Brush Strokes
Painting is equated to writing. Students tend to do more functional writing, like painting a house/car, rather than creative writing, like painting a portrait.
Five different brush strokes: (see Red Handout)